Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe

Our easy Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe is the perfect cookie treat to make for your Christmas cookie exchange! Get the kids in the kitchen with you too!

Tis the season for COOKIES!!! I don’t know about you, but I just love delivering batches of cookies to my neighbors, especially this Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe! Easy to make, delicious and pretty holiday colors. What more could you want?

My favorite colors are blue and green because they cover both of the major holidays – and also they look super wintery, but you could choose any color combination!

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Go ahead, tease me for not having my own sugar cookie recipe. But P.S. I really love the Pillsbury™ sugar cookie tube! It’s yummy, and simple, and fun to experiment with! We pick up ours at Walmart.

Pro-tip: if you freeze your sugar cookie chub (did you know that’s what the tube of dough is called?!), it’s easier to slice perfect circles. It also keeps the cookies from spreading too much!

We use the microwave to melt our candy melts, but you can also use a double boiler. Either one will work just fine if you pay close attention. It’s important not to overheat the candy melts because they will scorch. And scorched sugar is not so tasty!

Obviously use whatever sprinkles you love (let’s be real, I love alllll the sprinkles!), but can I suggest the white sugar sprinkles in combination with the pearlized round sprinkles? They just look so wintery and snowy.

It would also be cute to do the green dipped cookies with red sprinkles and some red dipped cookies with green sprinkles!

If you love holiday cookie recipes, make sure to check out these other yummy cookie recipe ideas!

Ingredients

Instructions

Slice frozen dough into disks and bake on a silicone mat or parchment paper, according to sugar cookie recipe directions.

Allow cookies to cool completely.

Melt candy melts in the microwave (use 10 - 15 second increments, stirring in between), or with a double boiler. Be careful not to overcook as candy melts will scorch.

Dip cookies halfway in melted candy melt, and place on a silicone mat or parchment paper. Decorate immediately with sprinkle while the candy melt is still liquid. Do not wait until you're done dipping or the candy melt will have hardened and the sprinkles won't stick.

Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe, Directions:

Slice frozen dough into disks and bake on a silicone mat or parchment paper, according to sugar cookie recipe directions.

Allow cookies to cool completely.

Melt candy melts in the microwave (use 10 – 15 second increments, stirring in between), or with a double boiler. Be careful not to overcook as candy melts will scorch.

Dip cookies halfway in melted candy melt, and place on a silicone mat or parchment paper. Decorate immediately with sprinkle while the candy melt is still liquid. Do not wait until you’re done dipping or the candy melt will have hardened and the sprinkles won’t stick.